NO PEOPLE...: Flipped on Biden, fell in with Trump!

TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2026

Of whom, what did we know? "No people are uninteresting," Yevtushenko said (in translation). 

The poem in question starts off like this:  

People   

No people are uninteresting.
Their fate is like the chronicle of planets.

Nothing in them is not particular,
and planet is dissimilar from planet.

And if a man lived in obscurity
making his friends in that obscurity
obscurity is not uninteresting.

To each his world is private,
and in that world one excellent minute.

And in that world one tragic minute.
These are private.   

To this day, we don't know why we find those lines so moving. But they hit us that way every time.

For each person, those moments are private! Then too, there are the people who largely live their lives in in the public sphere. Of whom, what do we really know?  

[continuing from above]  
In any man who dies there dies with him
his first snow and kiss and fight.
It goes with him.

There are left books and bridges
and painted canvas and machinery.
Whose fate is to survive.

But what has gone is also not nothing:
by the rule of the game something has gone.
Not people die but worlds die in them.

Whom we knew as faulty, the earth’s creatures
Of whom, essentially, what did we know?  

Of whom, what did we know?   

In the first hour of today's Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle expressed a bit of puzzlement about the late Lindsey Graham. He referred to Graham's videotaped statement about Joe Biden, the remarkable statement we quoted in full in yesterday's report.

At the time, Biden was sitting vice president. This morning, here's what Barnicle said:  

BARNICLE (7/14/26): He once said, about Joe Biden, that if you could meet a person—that God never created a better person than Joe Biden. And yet he said some horrible things about Biden during Biden's presidency, and just quite recently. And I've never been able to juggle that. 

What went on in Lindsey's head?   

"Access to power," Joe Scarborough said—and he said that Graham would admit it. 

Scarborough knew Graham better than most. That dated to their entry into the House in 1995, following the 1994 wave election which gave the GOP control of the chamber for the first time in forty years.

Speaking this morning to Barnicle, Scarborough said he could never understand Graham's decision to be "a shapeshifter" (Scarborough's term). But he also said this:

"You can trace the fall of the Republican Party" to Graham's peregrination from a feisty opponent of Speaker Gingrich to an admiring sidekick to John McCain, then on to his role as a prime supporter of President Trump, who he had once denounced.   

For the record, that "fall of the party" leaves President Trump in place in the White House. No one has the slightest idea what may be planned for this fall's elections There will be more than two years of his presidency left after that, and no one has the slightest idea what those years might hold.

"No people are uninteresting?" We're going to guess that what you see in this report isn't what Yevtushenko meant:   

Trump Will Use Primetime Speech to Claim Newly-Declassified Intel Reveals Foreign Plot...

President Donald Trump will reportedly use his primetime address on Thursday night to push specific new claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

On Monday afternoon, Trump announced on Truth Social that he’d be giving a Thursday speech... 

On Deadline: White House, MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace revealed Trump’s speech would focus on the six-year-old election—citing a report from the network’s Jake Traylor. Specifically, the president will reportedly point to newly-declassified reports he claims will show foreign interference in the 2020 election.   

That isn't quite what Traylor's report actually said, but it's in the ballpark. Traylor's report came in the form of a tweet. You can read it here.  

"No people are uninteresting?" Some people are dangerous—you might say potentially menacing. 

If Traylor's report is correct, the sitting president is gathering the nation on Thursday night to advance his obsessive belief about the 2020 election again. 

No people are uninteresting? On this campus, we're inclined to assume that the sitting president is (clinically) delusional. We further assume that we're describing a tragic but dangerous state of affairs.  

Back in 2015, Lindsey Graham said that God never made a better person than Biden. He also said this, near the end of that year, during an appearance on CNN:  

GRAHAM (12/16/15): I want to talk to the Trump supporters for a minute. I don’t know who you are, and I don't know why you like this guy....

Here’s what you’re buying: He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn't represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for.  

"Yet scarcely two months after Mr. Trump’s inauguration [for his first term], a grinning Mr. Graham could be found in the office of the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, chatting with Kellyanne Conway, one of the president’s top advisers," the New York Times later reported.  

In November 2020, he was on the phone to Brad Raffensperger in Georgia, assisting Trump in questioning Candidate Biden's win in the state. On January 6, 2021, there was his instant denunciation of that day's attack, followed by a fairly speedy reversal.

Thursday night, the president's delusion may be back, at the heart of a national address. No one knows what may be planned for the days and years to come.

Senator Graham died this weekend. Of whom, what did we know?